Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

I have recently been instructed that no one
should be advised to pledge himself to spend two,
three, four, five, or six years under any man's
tuition. Brethren, we have no time for this. Time is
short. We are to hold out urgent inducements to the
men who ought now to be engaged in missionary
work for the Master. The highways and byways are
yet unworked. The Lord calls for young men to
labor as canvassers and evangelists, to do house-tohouse
work in places that have not yet heard the
truth. God speaks to our young men, saying, "Ye
are not your own; for ye are bought with a price;
therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
The Lord must be given an opportunity to show
men their duty and to work upon their minds. No
one is to bind himself to serve under the direction
of any human being; for the Lord himself will call
men, as of old he called the humble fishermen, and
will himself give them the education he desires
them to have. He will call men from the plow and
from other occupations, to give the last note of
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